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English
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Hopeful Odyssey : Nels Anderson : Boy Hobo, Wartime Diarist, Public Servant, Expatriate Sociologist
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Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series, 1984-2014
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St. George, UT
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Dixie State University
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731-52
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This Juanita Brooks lecture is an effort to call attention to the contributions sociologist Nels Anderson made to Mormon and Utah history, with special emphasis on his descriptions of life in Utah's Dixie. Runaway son, mule skinner, hobo ditched from a desert railroad, ranch hand, railway maintenance and mine prop carpenter, Anderson was a graduate of Dixie College, Brigham Young University, the University of Chicago, and New York University. He became a high ranking labor official in FDR's administration, wrote Desert Saints, and was also one of the most gifted of what I like to call the "Dixie School" of writers. In addition, he was a longtime U.S. State Department and U.N. official and a sometimes expatriate and suspect during Joseph McCarthy's purges.